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Ryoichi (Roy) Sugimura

Ryoichi (Roy) Sugimura

Work Experience  

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)  4/2016-Present 

  • Supervisory Innovation Coordinator of AIST   4/2016 – Present
  • Visiting Professor of Tsukuba University 6/2019 – Present 
  • The HOD for SC 42 “Artificial Intelligence” in JTC 1, ISO/IEC          4/2018 – Present 

NTT DOCOMO                                                                                               10/2012-4/2016 

  • Director, Product Innovation Group, Product Department 04/2015-03/2016 
  • Director, Global Alliance, Marketing Department                                  10/2012-06/2013 

FIDO Alliance 6/2015- 3/2016 

  • Deployment at Scale WG chair 

Tizen Association, Delaware Corporation                                                02/2009 – 03/2015 

  • Chairman of the Board                                                                    02/2013-03/2015 
  • Treasurer, Officer                                                                                               2009-2013 

Panasonic Mobile Communications, Yokohama, Japan                            01/2008 – 09/2012 

  • Senior Councilor  

ESTEEMO, Kawasaki, Japan                                                                   11/2006 – 10/2008 

  • Deputy Managing Director(CEO), member of the board                                                              

Panasonic Mobile Communications, Yokohama, Japan                          04/2004 – 10/2006 

  • Director of Mobile System Development Center                                  04/2006 – 10/2006 
  • Director of Base System Development Center                                     10/2004 – 03/2006 
  • Director of the Supervisory board of Symbian, UK.                            04/2005 – 03/2006 

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.,Ltd                                                     10/2001 – 09/2004 

  • Producer of D1 Corporate Strategic Project                                        09/2003 – 09/2004 
  • Director of Mobile System Research Laboratory                                  10/2001 – 08/2003 

Panasonic Office Workstations Limited, Edinburgh, U.K.                     10/1999 – 09/2001 

  • Managing Director (CEO)                                                                                             

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.,Ltd. Osaka Japan                             04/1989 – 09/1999 

  • Senior Researcher

Institute for New Generation Computer Technology, Tokyo Japan       06/1985–03/1989 

  • Researcher 

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.,Ltd, Osaka, Japan                           04/1980 – 05/1985 

  • Researcher, Central Research Laboratory 

Education 

  • Ph.D from Kyoto University 01/1998 
  • Master of Arts in International Master in Practicing Management (IMPM) from
    Lancaster University, U.K.   12/1997 
  • Diploma from INSEAD in IMPM 12/1997 
  • BA from Kyoto University,                                                                                   03/1980 

Awards 

  • Prize winning from the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, for the paper titled “Constraint Analysis of Logic Based Grammar”. 07/1988 (First Author)
  • Prize winning from the Japanese Language Processing Society, for the paper titled “Large Scale Structuring and Re-Use of Language Data through Standard Tagging”, 1997 (Co-Author)
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  • Organization
    National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
  • Profession
    Supervisory Innovation Coordinator